Monthly Archives: August 2010

Ask a Curator.

Inspired by the mildly sucessful twitter event – ‘Follow a Museum Day’ which took place last feburary – the folks at the Sumo design company have orchestrated a new event that focuses more on curatorial side of things. ‘Ask a Curator Day‘ (starting tomorrow, September 1st 2010) will open the door to these experts with [...]

SONIC NOON, 9/2: Free lunchtime concert at the Henry next week!

Download a printable pdf here. Our Sonic Noon series continues with Andrea Roberts (keyboard) and Steven Bell (vibraphone), who will perform next Thursday, September 2nd, from 12-1 pm in the Henry’s Sculpture Court. This event is FREE. Missed July’s performance? Check it out here. Missed August’s performance? Here you go. Are you going to miss [...]

The 5th Annual Seattle Bike-In

Saturday, August 28 in Cal Anderson Park Bands and fair at 5pm, movies at dusk FREE! The North West Film Forum will be hosting their annual Bike-In  celebration of green transportation THIS SATURDAY! For those of you who enjoy a good summer outdoor cinema experience Grab your bike, grab your friends and head up to  [...]

New Artworks at Molly’s Cafe

A patron viewing Maggie Romano’s trying currently on view at Molly’s Cafe in the Henry Art Gallery Hello Hank & Greetings Henry Blog Readers, it’s me, Ryan, the Intern, and I was wondering if you’ve been in Molly’s Café recently. Not only is the coffee great and the sandwiches amazing, now you can add see [...]

Open Studio with SuttonBeresCuller

If you haven’t been by in a while you might not have had the opportunity to see SuttonBeresCuller’s Open Studio. Right now John, Ben, and Zac are hard at work fabricating an interactive installation that will intervene with Vortexhibition Polyphonica, an ongoing exhibition of works from the Henry’s permanent collection. In the East Gallery, the [...]

Kalup Linzy @ SAM Performs, Next Week

I am an unabashed fan of Kalup Linzy. The combination of humor, pathos, skill, and surprise in his video projects and performances is incredible. His work is laced with shrewd truths about race, class, sex, love, family, and stereotyping and wrapped in a package that SAM’s website aptly describes as “Part Richard Pryor, part RuPaul.” [...]

Nice to meet you, Hank

May I call you Hank? Hankblog is nice, don’t get me wrong, but Hank, just feels better. I’m the new intern at the Henry, who is the older brother which you may or may not have rivalry issues with, but that’s fine, because you’re still a functioning member of society and that makes it OK. [...]

Function : Form : Funk Part 2

There is more amazing poetry that I need to share and some pics of the students at work. All of the students did an amazing job. Enjoy! Funk: Stop staring at me All of you Every face in this room Real or not You’re disturbing Function: Bird houses ticking Hammers and crescent shaped knives dangling [...]

Function : Form : Funk

As part of Vortexhibition Polyphonica the Henry set up a satellite website that invites visitors to learn more about the exhibition and lend their voice through comments, videos, music, etc. Our lovely Visitor Services and Tour Coordinator, Maria, posted this  on the VP.o3 page… A couple of weeks ago we were paid a visit from [...]

Sonic Noon w/ Ivan + Jared

What a turnout! Today’s performance featured Ivan Arteaga & Jared Borkowski who have performed here at the Henry a number of times in that past. We were excited to see them back again this summer playing selections from some new work they’ve done in conjunction with Tap Root Theater, where they are currently working on [...]

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